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Free Mark Steyn 2013!

“What I always objected to in Canada about Section 13 was its casual contempt for the citizenry, the same contempt on display today in Washington and London. Like Theresa May, Justice Kennedy would rather impute motive than engage argument. The need to delegitimize those who disagree does indeed “demean this institution”, and is profoundly disturbing.”

~ ALTHOUGH TEH Binks is a long-time internet news & blog guy (started 1995-6), it wasn’t until the Mark Steyn/ Ezra Levant cases in late 2007 that I turned from the goldfish pond of Anglican news to the sea of Canadian politics, free speech, and all the stuff you see below and in the archives.

The problematic provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act, Section 13, had been extended by bureaucrats, professional lawfare people, and professional Muslims to include anything deemed offensive on the interwebs– in these cases, not only was the truth no defence, but the process was the punishment as the accused had to pay their own way, and the government got to hire heaps of lawyers and questionable investigators to stomp the puny peasants into the ground. Even if you were technically innocent, it could cost you tens of thousands of dollars.

Canadian bags of scum like Richard Warman made a career out of being legally offended on behalf of others. The Sockpuppets and their Islamic masters dragged Mark Steyn & Maclean’s Magazine through countless dollars and wasted hours of kangaroo tribunals; Ezra Levant spent $100 000 to defend himself from sufi Muslim Imam Syed Soharwardy and the sturmtruppen of the Alberta government.. both cases courtesy of Section 13.

Thin Red Line

Remember: from the point of view of professional bureaucrats, grievance-mongers and human rights activists, if Canadians weren’t prevented from saying possible offensive things, then mobs and Nazis and hate would sweep across Canada.. GENOCIDE WILL ENSUE!! No, I’m not exaggerating.

Only they and their vigilance lay between us and utter societal collapse. Such was the narrative of the human rights loonies– in the name of imaginary evils, real legal, personal, and public abuse of “possibly offensive” ordinary and public Canadians was excused.

Shakedown!

So.. rejoice, Section 13 is gone– but as Teh Binks has warned, the radicals creep on. Just last week, comedian Guy Earle lost a last-ditch appeal not to have to pay an offended lesbian $15 000.00 because of some heckling gone wrong; you can imagine what the result might have been had a drunken non-gay couple had been heckled by an offensive lesbian comedian, and that tells you all you need to know about the state of free speech in the demented Dominion in 2013: one step forward, two steps back.

Oh, and the restaurant owner Salam Ismail is also being forced to cough up $7 000 loot for the complainant, in addition to his $13 000 in legal fees. Shakedowns can be profitable, you know.

The Big Picture

Freedom of speech, association, sharing of ideas, criticism, all of that stuff is rather unpopular these days in Omerica, and EUrostan. Just the other day, two writers were officially forbidden by the British government to enter the United Kingdom to speak and attend various events because.. they criticize militant Islam. YOu know, the kind that leads to beheading, radicalization of the young, Jihadi warriors running off to chop heads and shoot people in Syria and elsewhere, and generally scheme to overthrow democracy, law, free speech, and any other religion except Islam.

This is a small victory– in an ever-widening civilizational struggle for self-definition, freedom versus security, and against revanchist Capiphatist Islam. Looks like Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was right, in seeing the future as a war between two irrationals: secularist semi-fascist Western governments and elites, versus sharia supremacism and soft/ hard Jihadism.

The rest of us are caught between these two grindstones. ~

It Has To Be Said

“Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, let it be known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” (Daniel 3:17-18)

~ OK, PROGRESSIVES– you notice the “unspeakable right wing” that keeps talking back to the sorts of Total State you all keep promoting for your various causes? Yeah: lots of those people are just the kind of people who– like Sophie Scholl & The White Rose group in 1940s Germany, or Solzhenitsyn in the USSR– who speak out against Uber State, no matter how good the excuses and imagined but delusional good such abominations of politics and freedom might supposedly bring.

That is– some of us WILL NOT simply surrender to evil, nor name it good, nor let whatever ends justify any and all means. You are not on the side of the angels, you progressives, nor on the side of humanity, or human dignity, faith or love, or risky liberty under law. You march alongside jackboot and threat and slogan and slander and The Big Lie.

~ BACK IN THE DAY, words had power– both the power of ideas, but also the power of luck or cursing.. so don’t mention death, or speak evil on someone, because it might come to pass. Words were serious, never ‘mere’.

After all, the “Scientific Revolution” was, for a long time, the twin of magic & alchemy and other forms of seeking to control human and material nature, learn the mysteries of the universe, and tap into the tremendous forces of life, the stars and planets, the human spirit, and unseen things… by spells and words of power and all the rest.

Our Magical Powers

We’ve become so used to the power of our ability to make and change things, and the speed of technological change become so fast, that it almost seems magical, our words and ideas become real objects, or new toys, or things– like the communicator from Star Trek– become something every teen carries in their pocket– the smart or iPhone.

Because we’re used to nature bowing to our will, of overcoming every technical problem with more technology, we really are almost like wizards, only not like Gandalf, but like Saruman– never stopping to ask if just because something is possible, whether we should proceed.

So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done

I think to the modern radical and bureaucratic mind, something like this magical way of thinking is in force: we wish or say something, and it becomes so. Not just so as a fact, but so it is and so it should be that way BECAUSE we say so. We have the bureaucratic and legislative and polling magic– we can do whatever we will.

So it is with the rise of same-sex pseudogamy (or ‘marriage’). Powered by freud, sexual radicalism, clever legal and political maneuvering, and piggy-backing on the moral and sexual antics of the Western middle class, same-sex activists in Canada, Europe, and now the United States are– as they see it– remaking reality by passing or defeating laws, and having court cases decided.. in an ever-persistent rising tide.. in their favour.

Questions of law, tradition, faith, nature, democracy, childrearing and real consequences are ruled out of court. The god equality must break every boundary, throw down every human institution, sacrifice all human wisdom to fulfill the personal happiness of same-sex activists– even though not all gay people want these illusory freedoms, nor support the bullying and politics of threat and fascistic attacks against the opposition to making some bizarre new form of un-marriage.

The results will be horrible, but hidden. The avalanche begun by the mass use of contraception, the advent of easy and then no-fault divorce, and now various self-declared “sexual minorities” lining up at the rights trough for their share of state-imposed rights will continue to tumble down the slippery slope to God-knows-where.

Skiing The Slippery Slope

The slippery slope may not be pure logic– but then, neither is human behaviour. It is a moral argument that in the matter of the sexual revolution has proven to terribly and inescapably correct.. however much we may get used to real evils that we now are forbidden to judge or warn about, or deplore.

Just saying things does not make it so. Forcing legal and societal change for utopian social and sexual schemes do not make said schemes good, or true, or desirable. Silencing your opposition as evil is a blow for evil, not for truth, freedom, and wisdom.

Un-Chicken Littles

Willing scary novelties as supreme goods by the force of the state, by corrupt and pandering governments and the chattering classes? A good way to total government acting as a god. Of course, for many radicals, that is precisely what their actions lead to, and– as some will say– “look, the sky hasn’t fallen yet.”

Shame on the Canadian national & provincial governments, the UK, and the radical regime in Omerica. To repeat myself:

“This is no liberation, but a great festering wound on the dying body of Western Civilization. We cannot make things so by will, no matter how hard we try. We can only make words, allowing some evils, and forcing other people to pretend that it’s all the same as other real things. Though it doesn’t have the drama, in truth, this is as great a blow and disaster to Western freedom as the Defeat at Dunkirk.”

Thanks Mark, thanks Ezra, thanks to our MPs & Senators, thanks to the bloggers, journalists, and folks from across the political spectrum who got that this is a people-issue, not simply a partisan issue. ~

~ SADLY, THE Brain-rot of Canadian Anglicanism began in the 1960s, and started to show the effects in the 1970s under soft-radical Primate “Red” Ted Scott. Yes, he was a useful idiot in his connection with the KGB-infiltrated World Council Of Churches, and espoused all the usual Leftward causes imaginable.. and led the Church that way.

Little known to faithful pew-sitters, he was also laying the path towards today’s moral and marital chaos, by undercutting the old restrictions on marriage to relatives in consultations with the Canadian government over consanguinuity in 1984.

The traditional rules are right there in the classical Prayerbook: except that in Canada, the 2001 General Synod (National Denominational meeting) struck down almost all restrictions of consanguinuity (i.e., incest).

Essentially, in 2004, the Canadian Anglicans.. in line with Red Ted’s pro-incest work, but taking the next radical step– permitted the marrying of uncles and neices, mothers and step-sons.. but still somehow kept restrictions on brothers and sister, or children and parents. For now.

Yup. You read that right.

Radicals In Robes

The Anglican Church of Canada– the fastest shrinking sect in North America, unless we include mass-suicide cults– has in this way contributed to the collapse of anything like a Biblical and Christian and healthy boundaries for marriage.

Sadly, an African observer at the 2004 General Synod protested that such decisions would lead to great sin, lust, and the ruining of family relationships, and give a poor witness to Christians around the world, many of whom were recently out of a pan-sexual paganism, and were learning the blessings and wisdom of the ages-old pattern of Judaeo-Christian marriage, both as a way of hallowing relationships, and as a mystery and image of Christ’s love for his church.

Incoming.. 3.. 2.. 1..

The real question facing Western civilization as we hack away our basic societal roots is: why limits of any sort at all? If “follow your joy” and “marriage is not about babies” are the new principles, why not do whatever and whomever you want?

After all, the state has said it’s all good, and as long as we can have all the sexual chaos and jollies we want, who cares if the state becomes ever more powerful, screwing us all as we lose our real political and monetary and intellectual freedoms?

~ CLIMATE CHANGE: Obama’s Next Big Push for a Cause That Americans Don’t Want, Need or Believe In … (theblogmocracy)

Mark Steyn

“What I always objected to in Canada about Section 13 was its casual contempt for the citizenry, the same contempt on display today in Washington and London. Like Theresa May, Justice Kennedy would rather impute motive than engage argument. The need to delegitimize those who disagree does indeed “demean this institution”, and is profoundly disturbing.”

~ IT IS WELL TO KEEP in mind where the humanities in the Western tradition more or less got started: with Socrates asking questions of his fellow citizens, not around a seminar table, but in familiar places like a market, a banquet, or a gymnasium … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ ACCORDING TO THE UK HOME OFFICE if you are a non-Muslim and you make the following statement your presence will be deemed ‘not conducive to the public good’ and you will be barred from entering the United Kingdom … (blogs.spectator)

~ IN SEPTEMBER 2012, Salman Rushdie made a speech stating that novels like “The Satanic Verses” would struggle to be published today because the violent fallout and fear would be too great for publishers. He’s right … (bogpaper.com)

~ DOMINION DAY– “The Crown in Canada ought to be treasured. More than anything else, it is the Crown that makes Canadian society a society of free equals.”; But when it comes to knowing our own history, we’re the dunce at the table … (princearthurherald.com)

~ ROGER KIMBALL– Free speech in the UK: Sayonara: “US Bloggers banned from Entering the UK.”.. “Lee Rigby is hacked to death by Muslim fanatics. That’s an instance of what former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insisted we call “anti-Islamic activity.” Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer say and write things the timid, politically correct bureaucrats who run Britain don’t like, and they’re declared pariahs” … (rogerkimball)

“.. this was never a debate. It was just another litmus test to see how far left wing activists could get, how much they could demand, and how much they could influence moving the traditional goal posts of society.”

~ DISAPPOINTED, but Not Surprised: Aleteia Experts React to Supreme Court Rulings; We will never stop defending the truth – that marriage is between a man and a woman; Martha Nussbaum admits that her arguments for same-sex “marriage” result in the permissability of polygamy … (aleteia.org, lifesite)

~ EUROPE VERSUS CHRIST?– 1700 years after the Edict of Milan, religious intolerance is still a problem, even if the platitudes flow thick and fast … (mercatornet.com)

~ A RAPPER’S Heartbreaking Video on Regretting Abortion Reaches Millions; Welcome to the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. An important part of the campaign is our outreach to men who Regret their Lost Fatherhood from an abortion loss … (lifenews, fatherhoodforever)

~ MY LIFE AS a Public Enemy – Fjordman: “Does freedom of speech apply even to truly loathsome creeps like Fjordman?” … (frontpagemag.com)

~ LOOK! CHEERFUL Party Hats on Surveillance Cameras to Celebrate the 110th Birthday of George Orwell! … (neatorama.com)

~ FACEBOOK SILENCED Mike S. Adams: “This account was suspended yesterday. Posts were deleted as “hate speech” for asserting that same sex marriages should not compel benefits because those relationships are not as beneficial to society as those resulting in traditional marriage. Shame on you Facebook. Shame on you for empowering bullies who wish to silence mainstream political speech. Censorship does not promote equality. Column forthcoming.” … (facebook)

~ CHRISTINE WILLIAMS – A Day Of Mourning For Persecuted People In Islamic Regimes … (youtube)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS– The British government’s jihad against free thought: “By banning from the country as extremists the American anti-jihadis Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, the Home Secretary Teresa May has not only made herself look ridiculous but has sent the enemies of the United Kingdom the message that they have it on the run” … (melaniephillips)

~ SCANDALISM– “Because the IRS (and Revenue Canada, its north-of-the-border equivalent) has such power in our current model of governance, the subversion of that power to the agendae of partisan and electoral politics is no small thing” … (frdenis.blog)

~ THE CREEPY-STATE is not there to protect you or give you a higher standard of living or ensure justice or democracy, but to maintain a hierarchical public order from “disruption” (formerly known as “politics” or “democracy”) … (pundita.blog)

~ IN RECENT DAYS Ryan T. Anderson has emerged as perhaps our most prominent and articulate defender of marriage. He’s been especially ubiquitous after the Supreme Court’s rulings on DOMA and Prop 8 … (firstthings.com)

~ DOOMY-DOOM-DOOMED? “What is the political equilibrium when insect-sized drone assassins are available?” Cowen has several observations and concludes we end up wishing for the Great Stagnation … (marginalrevolution)

~ NE-E-E-E-EXT! Polygamists and their supporters celebrated Wednesday, saying they see implications for their cause in the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act … (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ WELL DONE, THEN– 22 arrested, 2 children rescued in massive child porn bust in Atlantic Canada. There is a special hell reserved for such folks. Death penalty? Prison for life? Chemical castration? … (sunnewsnetwork.ca)

~ ERIC METAXAS– The supremes and marriage: the battle goes on … (lifesitenews)

~ THE IMPORTANCE OF HATRED– “With all the deintellectualization, deindustrialization, and dehumanization in the news it’s easy to become numb…. The simple fact of life is if you don’t hate you don’t care, and if you don’t care you might as well be dead” … (takimag.com)

~ ALBERTAN PREMIER– “She relishes the disaster that hit Alberta. No, she doesn’t enjoy the suffering of her fellow Albertans, but for her it’s simply too good an opportunity to pass up to save her own bacon” … (wernerpatels.com)

~ TAKI MAG– He Who Would Battle Monsters, by Alexander Fiske-Harrison … (takimag.com)

~ WE NEED TO LOVE GOD and we need to love our neighbor. I fear, however, that those who endeavor to do both responsibly and well with the purest of motivations will be labeled as “intolerant” or “homophobic” … (rianniello.blog)

~ AWESOMENESS– ‘Isn’t that the prime minister’s wife?’: Laureen Harper pitches in for Calgary flood clean up. Can you ever in your wildest imaginings see Queen Michelle Ist of Obamastan stepping from her pedestal (or cancelling a vaycay) to do the same? … (news.nationalpost)

~ UTOPIA-A-A-A-A!!! “Yesterday was Sodomy Day at the Supreme Court, and with the many Sodomy Pride parades scheduled throughout the US this coming weekend, Justice Kennedy will serve as the symbolic Grand Marshal” … (merecomments)

~ CRAZY IMMIGRATION BILL– “Now you can’t tell what side our own people are supposed to be on. You feel that knife going into your back and find out it has Republican fingerprints all over it.” … (theulstermanreport.com)

~ WHAT IF ALL CRIMINALS could use the same hare-brained excuses as the Obama administration? … (infowars.com)

~ IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, UN says there are strong suspicions Syria’s rebels have used chemical weapons.. contrary to U.S. talking-points/ excuses for war … (nationalpost)

~ HOW THE NSA IS STILL harvesting your online data– Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating ‘one trillion records processed’ … (guardian.co.uk)

~ THE SPIT-ROASTING of Paula Deen, by Jim Goad– “Amid all the public shirt-rending, the wagging of fingers and shaking of heads, the tut-tutting and tsk-tsking, the eyeball-pluckingly pious denunciations about shamefulness, evil, heinousness, and raw pure unabashed hateful unforgivable Southern wickedness, it mostly escaped notice that Deen (an Obama supporter) said she’d used the word in a discussion with her husband after a black man held a gun to her head while robbing her at the bank where she worked.” … (takimag.com)

~ HOBBY LOBBY Just Scored a Major Victory Against Obamacare … (theblaze.com)

~ SLAVERY BY 1000 CUTS– Supreme Court Bombshell: No Right to Remain Silent any more.. does that also apply to IRS harpy Lois Lerner? “The goodness of the Constitution was not enough to protect one of our most fundamental and cherished liberties from the assault by an almost all-powerful federal government” … (thenewamerican.com)

~ FORIEGNER Barack Obama’s student aid record reveals he received financial aid as a foreign student and a citizen of Indonesia … (examiner.com)

~ THE BRITTLE GLUE– As it fragments into various camps, the country is being held together by a common popular culture; and “Next year could be a frightening one, in the fashion of 1979–80” … (victorhanson.com)

~ THAT WHOLE “Let’s Bomb Libya, So We Can Replace Their Government With Islamist Militias” plan sure is working out well. No wonder Obama wants to try it again in Syria … (frontpagemag)

~ WHEN PUBLIC RECORD information from the University of Washington was added to Wikipedia’s biography of Stanley Ann Dunham (Barack Hussein Obama Jr’s mother), it was removed in 35 minutes the first time and 34 minutes the second time. Read what Obama’s team of internet thugs doesn’t want you to know … (atlasshrugs2000)

“It takes real cheek for today’s majority to assure us, as it is going out the door, that a constitutional requirement to give formal recognition to same-sex marriage is not at issue here—when what has preceded that assurance is a lecture on how superior the majority’s moral judgment in favor of same-sex marriage is to the Congress’s hateful moral judgment against it. I promise you this: The only thing that will “confine” the Court’s holding is its sense of what it can get away with.”

~ Justice Antonin Scalia ~

~ NEW POLL: 26% of Obama supporters think Tea Party is top terrorist threat … (winteryknight)

~ THE AMERICAN TRADITIONAL FAMILY will soon be left on the ash heap of history just like 50 million Unborn Babies who were left in trash bags to be harvested for collagen (use in cosmetic products) and body parts (used in medical experimentations) over the last 40 years … (citizeninitiatives.org)

~ STILL SLICK WILLY– Bill Clinton Celebrates Supreme Court Overturning Marriage Law He Signed: “Bill Clinton is always on the right side of every issue. The right side being the one that makes him popular. If he’s not, wait for the next poll and he will be”; Hillary Clinton thanks those who lobbied to overturn law her husband signed … (frontpagemag, twitchy)

~ A MODEST QUESTION to “hero” St. Sen. Wendy Davis: “Which kids that you see on the playground shouldn’t be there?” … (twitchy.com)

~ GREAT & GLORIOUS Obama’s “Cult Of Personality”…Enshrined During His Second Term … (adinakutnicki)

~ OBVIOUSLY, “The four justices appointed by Presidents Clinton and Obama clearly would declare a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in a heartbeat, if they were to get a fifth vote” … (weeklystandard)

~ AUTHOR BRICE BAWER reviews Douglas Murray’s book on ‘Islamophilia’ in Western elitist circles. “Like Virgil guiding Dante through Hell in the Inferno, Murray takes us on a spin through contemporary Islamophilia” … (frontpagemag.com)

~ BRAINWASHING INFIDELS– ” Young British students taken to mosques by schools, made to do islamic observances. Think the same schools will take the muslim kids to a synagogue? A Catholic Church and make them get baptized? How about a lecture by Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, which in fact really should be part of the curricula” … (vladtepesblog.com)

~ TERRIFIED BRITAIN appears to be making the same empty threats as France when it comes to stopping state benefits to immigrants who for the large part range from full stop drains to the system to enemies of the state … (dailymail)